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Saturday, August 26. 2006

There are some additional indications for an integration of ZFS into Leopard: ZFS On Apple’s Leopard: Drops Of Fuel On The Embers. This remembers me, that we should support our storage on Macs. The Sun StorEdge 6140 looks almost as nice as an Xraid and is a real storage solution. Would open an huge market ... especially in conjunction with ZFS.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in Apple, English at 20:19 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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"The Sun StorEdge 6140 looks almost as nice as an Xraid and is a real storage solution. Would open an huge market"

Well. Or not. As much as I like Sun hardware, I don't see that coming.

Typical Apple Customers need sustained streamed I/O, not huge IOPS for random I/O. However, sustained streamed I/O is exactly what Xserve RAID offers at a good price point.

The 6140 can do the same, of course, and probably somewhat better, but will a typical Apple shop pay roughly triple the price of the Apple product, for a comparable configuration?

Let's not forget that we are talking about 46.000$ instead of 14.000$ for a full SATA configuration. If all you need is lots of SATA drives for video, rendering output, scans etc., why use a 6140? Looks like overkill to me.

If I were responsible for storage marketing at Sun, I'd instead evaluate marketing the thumper for the Apple market... To me, that would make much more sense.

Oh, and along the way I'd also make sure Sun customers in Germany don't end up in "The current page contains no data for your language or authorization level. " if they try to access the "Storage" pages... (since about three weeks now).

#1 Arnd Beissner on 2006-08-26 22:52 (Reply)

I would use a different storage, but the new 6140 looks most mac-like

#2 Joerg (Homepage) on 2006-08-27 07:35 (Reply)

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